New College Notes (ISSN 2517-6935)

The scholarly e-journal of New College, Oxford

New College Notes—the scholarly e-journal of New College, Oxford—is dedicated to research articles and learned notes on the history and life of the college, and especially the contents and history of the rich collections in our Library and Archives.

New College Notes is edited by the Librarian of New College, Dr Christopher Skelton-Foord.  Anyone wishing to contact or to contribute to this journal should email him.  Readers of our special collections in both the Library and in the Archives are warmly invited to send us contributions. 

The journal is available open-access to all interested readers through our website.  Both the current and past issues of New College Notes will remain accessible via this page.

Article Author Issue number Surname
“This Dooth Erasmus Williams Represent”, Richard Haydock, 1608 William Poole (2017): 08 Poole
‘Yours truly Jack the Ripper’—of New College, Oxford? Jason Morgan (2016): 07 Morgan
‘Very inconsiderable exceptg that they are the Hand writing of so great a Man’: The Provenance of Isaac Newton’s Manuscripts at New College, Oxford Frederik Dhondt (2023): 19 Dhondt
‘The Origins and Life of William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester’ Christopher Johnson (2014): 05 Johnson
‘The living Arts appear’d’: Shakespearean Ekphrasis in New College, MS 367 Anna-Nadine Pike (2021): 15 Pike
‘The divine Harvey’: The Afterlives of William Harvey Ludmilla Jordanova (2022): 17 Jordanova
‘Scotus Viator’: R. W. Seton-Watson and the Making of Czechoslovakia Caitlín Kane (2022): 18 Kane
‘On love and friendship, either true or false’: Ordinatio of Text and of Meaning in Oxford, New College, MS 98 Samira Lindstedt (2021): 16 Lindstedt
‘Hurried out of my life . . . my horses are at the door’: Harry Peckham and the Stewardship of New College’s Estates During the 1770s Jennifer Thorp (2018): 10 Thorp
‘His feet stunk out of cry’: Ben Stone’s Satirical Manuscript Verses on Thomas Coryate Philip S. Palmer (2014): 05 Palmer
‘Form! form! Riflemen form!’: The Oxford University Rifle Volunteer Corps in New College Archives Jason Morgan (2019): 11 Morgan
‘Edifying Words’ in the Florilegium of New College MS 98 Rebecca Menmuir (2020): 13 Menmuir
‘Bowlin Greens’ in Loggan’s Oxonia Illustrata (1675) Rebecca Hutchins (2013): 03 Hutchins
‘Ancient virtue and manly spirits’: The New College Men Who Fell in the Second Boer War Jason Morgan (2023): 19 Morgan
‘A very unusual binding’: A Remarkable Julius Caesar in New College Library Jason Morgan (2021): 16 Morgan
‘A chain of invincible reasoning’? Isaac Newton’s Writing Practices in the New College Manuscripts Jack Avery (2022): 17 Avery
Women in New College—350 Years Ago? Jennifer Thorp (2018): 09 Thorp
Window-Mounted Cancels?: More Questions Than Answers Geoffrey Day (2019): 12 Day
William Smith’s Biblical Notebook (1729): A Manuscript Recovered William Poole (2014): 05 Poole
William Musgrave (1655–1721): An Early Modern New College Natural Philosopher, Physician, and Antiquary William Poole (2021): 16 Poole
William Dowsing Reads a Plague Sermon Dunstan Roberts (2020): 13 Roberts
William Courtney and ‘the Woman Question’ Laura Marcus (2020): 14 Marcus
William Archibald Spooner and his Spoonerisms Sami Anderson-Talbi (2017): 08 Anderson-Talbi
What is the Mound for? Robin Lane Fox (2013): 03 Lane Fox
What could it be? An Eighteenth-Century Wig-Curler William Poole (2021): 15 Poole
West Gallery Woes: The Hornchurch Dispute of 1813 Jennifer Thorp (2015): 06 Thorp
Warden Robert Pink and the Disputed Election of 1620 Robert F.W. Smith (2015): 06 Smith
Warden Harmar and the Ralegh Trial Geoffrey Day (2015): 06 Day
Warden Fisher and the General Strike in 1926 Jennifer Thorp (2012): 01 Thorp
Upon the Unveiling of ‘A Dance to the Music of Time’ Michael Burden (2012): 02 Burden
Unique and Distinctive Acquisitions to New College Library in 2023 Christopher Skelton-Foord (2023): 20 Skelton-Foord
Two Copies of a Clandestine Manuscript in Late Seventeenth-Century New College William Poole (2012): 01 Poole
Three Letters from Stanley Casson to Francis Henry Taylor, 1932 William Poole (2014): 05 Poole
Thomas Tanner (1630-1682): A Cosmopolitan Fellow of the Interregnum and his Donations to the Library William Poole (2015): 06 Poole
Thomas Stapleton’s First Polemic: An Impact Case Study Jan Machielsen (2014): 05 Machielsen
Thomas Neal (c. 1519–c. 1590): Catholic, Priest, Scholar Thomas Neal (2020): 14 Neal
Thomas Milles’ Modified Books Adam Smyth (2016): 07 Smyth
Thomas Master and the Mensa Lubrica: A Seventeenth-Century Gaming Poem William Poole (2013): 03 Poole
Thomas Flatman, Unlikely First FRS of New College William Poole (2023): 20 Poole
The Two Euclids of Daniel Appleford (d. 1645) William Poole (2019): 11 Poole
The Torture and Mock Hanging of a Butler, and Latin Macaronics in Civil War New College William Poole (2016): 07 Poole
The Story of One Year in the Early Life of New College Brian Collins (2019): 11 Collins
The Russo-Japanese War on the Shelves of New College Library Alexander Morrison (2020): 14 Morrison
The Receipt of Manuscripts in New College Library 1624-1852 William Poole (2017): 08 Poole
The Penitent’s Tale; or, New College Library’s Copy of The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope (1717) Christopher Skelton-Foord (2019): 12 Skelton-Foord
The Papists of New College: I Katie McKeogh (2020): 14 McKeogh
The Palette and Pigments of a Thirteenth-Century Oxford Illuminator Richard Gameson (2021): 15 Gameson
The Other Samuel Johnson’s English Grammar Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade (2022): 18 Tieken-Boon van Ostade
The Origin of New College MS 144: Some Text-Critical Observations Elias Dietz (2021): 15 Dietz
The New College Porters Christopher Skelton-Foord (2020): 14 Skelton-Foord
The New College Fragments of Caxton’s Janua Grammar Hedwig Gwosdek (2013): 04 Gwosdek
The Mappa Mundi in Oxford, New College, MS 274 and the Aristotelian Theory of Elements Alfred Hiatt (2023): 20 Hiatt
The Long Reach of New College’s Catholic Apologists Robert Gullifer (2020): 14 Gullifer
The Language and Meaning of the College Motto Mark Griffith (2012): 01 Griffith
The King’s Eye James Willoughby (2015): 06 Willoughby
The John Lane Albums Jennifer Thorp (2014): 05 Thorp
The Invisible Book Randall McLeod with Timothy Perry (2021): 15 McLeod
The Heretic Scribbler of New College MS 319 Antje G. Frotscher (2022): 18 Frotscher
The Good Boy’s Book of Hours: New College MS 160 Anne B. Yardley (2019): 12 Yardley
The German War Memorial in New College Chapel Elliot Jordan (2022): 17 Jordan
The First Issue of the First Edition of the First Edwardian Prayer Book: New College Library, Oxford, BT1.131.19 Peter W. M. Blayney (2021): 15 Blayney
The Female Pope, a Mutilated Manuscript, and Some Bibliographical Puzzles William Poole (2015): 06 Poole
The Education of an Elizabethan Gentleman: Sir Alexander Temple at Oxford John Matthews (2019): 11 Matthews
The Chapel Reredos Jennifer Thorp (2013): 04 Thorp
The British Civil Wars and the Defence of Oxford David Parrott (2019): 11 Parrott
The Bets of G. H. Hardy Joseph Conlon (2019): 11 Conlon
The Bells of New College, from Five to Eight to Ten William Poole (2012): 01 Poole
The Authorship of New College MS 303 Alison Shell (2021): 15 Shell
The Appeal of Eros to Apollo: A New Manuscript for New College, Oxford Christopher Skelton-Foord (2022): 17 Skelton-Foord
The Alfred Lord Milner South African Addresses Jason Morgan (2012): 02 Morgan
The Acquisition of Alton Barnes as a New College Estate in 1385 Michael Stansfield (2023): 20 Stansfield
The 1588 Donations of Thomas Martin, Lawyer and Recusant William Poole (2013): 04 Poole
Thame School and New College Jennifer Thorp (2012): 01 Thorp
Teaching and Learning in Jacobean New College: The Foundation of the Lake Lectureships William Poole (2018): 09 Poole
Stephen Standish and the Provenance of the New College Astronomicum Cæsareum (1540) William Poole and Daniel Fried (2019): 12 Poole
Some Notes on New College Hunters Christopher Skelton-Foord (2023): 19 Skelton-Foord
Some Notable Acquisitions and Associations from 2020 Christopher Skelton-Foord (2020): 14 Skelton-Foord
Some Marginalia in Burnet’s History of My Own Time Lionel K. J. Glassey (2019): 12 Glassey
Some Early-Modern New College Poetical Miscellanies with Thomas Master’s Poem on his Cat William Poole (2012): 01 Poole
Some Early-Modern New College Poetical Miscellanies with Thomas Master’s Poem on his Cat William Poole (2012): 01 Poole
Some Benefactors and their Heraldry Patric Dickinson (2023): 19 Dickinson
Sixteenth-Century Ownership of the Bohun Apocalypse, New College MS 65 Arabella Milbank (2013): 04 Milbank
Sir Philip Rashleigh, Mineralogy, and the Cornish Industrial Revolution William Shire (2023): 19 Shire
Shepilinda on New College in 1738 William Poole and Geoff Neate (2012): 01 Poole
Seeing the Light: Being the story of Sir Isaac Newton’s prisms and papers and the means by which they came to New College Jason Morgan (2018): 09 Morgan
Samuel Rolles Driver: His Impact on the Reformed View of the Patriarch Jacob and the Meaning of his Name Oleg M. Tsymbalyuk (2020): 13 Tsymbalyuk
Robert Sharrock and the “History of the Propagation & Improvement of Vegetables” Anna Svensson (2017): 08 Svensson
Robert Hedrington and Wynkyn de Worde at Winchester College Richard Foster (2016): 07 Foster
Robert Burton and his Anatomy of Melancholy William Poole (2015): 06 Poole
Richard Willes: Sixteenth-Century Religious Renegade and Concrete Poet William Poole (2014): 05 Poole
Representing Reality: A Century of Dutch Golden Age Maps at New College Library William Shire (2022): 18 Shire
Reflections on Medieval Art, Politics, and the Courtrai Chest Joseph W. Mason (2022): 17 Mason
Prussia and the Poodle Emily Bootle (2013): 03 Bootle
Property of a Late Warden, 1613, with Some More on the Ryves Family William Poole (2014): 05 Poole
Pounced Corrections in Oxford Copies of Cavendish’s Philosophical and Physical Opinions; or, Margaret Cavendish’s Glitter Pen Liza Blake (2018): 10 Blake
Pleyyng with May’s Age in Oxford, New College MS 314 Lucy Fleming (2023): 20 Fleming
Philo of Alexandria at New College James R. Royse (2020): 13 Royse
Old English at New: Early Printed Books in Anglo-Saxon Type, 1570–1705 Antje G. Frotscher (2023): 19 Frotscher
Novelty and Notability: New College Library Acquisitions 2021 Christopher Skelton-Foord (2021): 16 Skelton-Foord
Nicholas Stoughton (1592-1648): MP, Surrey Militia Officer, and Patron of International Learning Vivienne Larminie (2015): 06 Larminie
News from the Library c. 1700 James Willoughby (2012): 01 Willoughby
New College’s Shakespeare Club Jennifer Thorp (2013): 03 Thorp
New College’s Shakespeare Club Jennifer Thorp (2013): 03 Thorp
New College’s Irish Airman Joseph Conlon (2018): 10 Conlon
New College, MSS 8–13: A Remarkable Biblical Commentary from the Fifteenth Century Lesley Smith (2022): 18 Smith
New College Servants in the 1914–18 War Jennifer Thorp (2014): 05 Thorp
New College School Archive Michael Stansfield (2022): 18 Stansfield
New College of Magic and Wizardry: A Second Note on the 1566/7 Visitation Jan Machielsen (2016): 07 Machielsen
New College MS 333: The Euthalian Apparatus and Menander’s Lost Thais Derek Spears (2018): 10 Spears
New College MS 333: An Extraordinary Witness to the Harklean Syriac New Testament Piotr Jutkiewicz (2022): 17 Jutkiewicz
New College MS 328 and ‘Jane the Quene’ Jason Morgan (2012): 01 Morgan
New College MS 298: A Story of the Manuscript Alberto Ravani (2021): 16 Ravani
New College MS 287 and its Text Jemima Bennett (2022): 17 Bennett
New College MCR: The 60th Anniversary Michael Stansfield (2023): 20 Stansfield
New College Library Benefactors’ Book 1611-1615 Anna-Lujz Gilbert (2019): 11 Gilbert
New College Library Benefactors’ Book 1601-1610: An Edition William Poole (2018): 09 Poole
New College and the Reformation David Parrott (2018): 09 Parrott
Nephew Bill Goes to Sea Jennifer Thorp (2019): 11 Thorp
Ned Warren’s ‘Jack in the Pulpit’: New College MS 380 and Textual Transmission Christopher Skelton-Foord (2022): 18 Skelton-Foord
Naps upon Parnassus: Some Attempts at Literary Humour in Elizabethan and Jacobean New College William Poole (2020): 13 Poole
MS 86 of the Fellows’ Library, Winchester Lucia Quinault (2015): 06 Quinault
More Stanley Casson Materials William Poole (2016): 07 Poole
Memories of New College 1950-1954 John Ledingham (2015): 06 Ledingham
Mary Woodforde’s Book Sophie Butler (2012): 02 Butler
Mary Woodforde’s Book Sophie Butler (2012): 02 Butler
Maria Regina Angliæ: A Gift for a Tudor Queen Jason Morgan (2018): 10 Morgan
Margaret Cavendish’s Books in New College, and around Oxford William Poole (2015): 06 Poole
Manuscript Waste William Poole (2012): 02 Poole
Luther’s Biblia Sacra of 1529 Cressida Ryan (2022): 18 Ryan
Lord Thurlow: A Chancellorship in Caricature through New College’s Collection of Gillrays, Part II Ben Gilding (2023): 20 Gilding
Lord Thurlow: A Chancellorship in Caricature through New College’s Collection of Gillrays Ben Gilding (2021): 15 Gilding
Looking for Scribal Play in Oxford, New College MS 314 Mary C. Flannery (2019): 12 Flannery
Lifting the Veil of Time: The Servants of New College Restored Jason Morgan (2017): 08 Morgan
Lending to the Manchester Art Exhibition in 1857 Michael Burden (2020): 13 Burden
Lechlade Hospital of St John Michael Stansfield (2022): 18 Stansfield
Law, Politics, and Scholarship in the Seventeenth Century: The Reputation of Nathaniel Fiennes Vivienne Larminie (2016): 07 Larminie
John Reinolds, Dead Poet (1614); or, What Did Fellows Own When They Died in College? William Poole (2014): 05 Poole
John Farley (d. 1464) and the Finessing of MS 281 James Willoughby (2021): 15 Willoughby
Jerome’s Journey: William Warham and the Dedication Copy of Erasmus’s Edition of Jerome (1516) Tim Wade (2019): 12 Wade
Jane Austen First Editions: Aves and the Sparrow Christopher Skelton-Foord (2018): 09 Skelton-Foord
It’s a Girl!: A Winchester Poetic Manuscript of c. 1719 Lucia Quinault (2014): 05 Quinault
Inheriting, Selling and Buying Books in New College Library, 1675-1849 William Poole (2013): 03 Poole
Information Structures in New College MS 143 Codex of Philo of Alexandria Sean A. Adams (2021): 16 Adams
Identifying the ‘Revd. Robt. Lowth’ in J. Sturges’s Letter to Mr. Cadell Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade (2022): 18 Tieken-Boon van Ostade
How The Mound Got Its Quack Felix Flicker (2018): 10 Flicker
Gerard’s Herbal Rebecca Hutchins (2012): 01 Hutchins
George Washington and the Ammunition Crisis of 1777 Jennifer Thorp (2012): 02 Thorp
Fun with Grammar: Richard Zouche’s ‘Upon the Burning of a School’ William Poole (2013): 03 Poole
From Manuscript to Print: Tracing a Technological Revolution in the Collections of New College Library Jason Morgan (2019): 12 Morgan
Forty Years of Women at New College: How Did They Get Here? Dennis A. Ahlburg (2020): 13 Ahlburg
Finding Inspector Morse in the Archives Dennis A. Ahlburg (2020): 13 Ahlburg
Fear Sells: Addenda to the 1588 Malleus Maleficarum Caitlín Kane (2023): 19 Kane
Evidence of an Early Modern Scholar’s Visit to the Library at New College, Oxford in the Early Seventeenth Century Renae Satterley (2021): 15 Satterley
Edward Bernard (1638–1697) and New College William Poole (2020): 14 Poole
Edmund Hakluyt: New College Singing Man, Tutor and Youngest Brother of Richard Hakluyt Daniel Carey (2013): 04 Carey
Early Science in New College III William Poole (2016): 07 Poole
Early Science in New College II: The Oglander Collection (1730) William Poole (2012): 02 Poole
Early Science in New College I: Robert Plot on New College (1677) William Poole (2012): 02 Poole
Dennis Potter: An Unconventional Dramatist Jason Morgan (2017): 08 Morgan
Deciphering the Title-Page of a Book of William Thorne of New College, Regius Professor of Hebrew, and King James Bible Translator William Poole (2012): 01 Poole
Daniel Vivian’s Grand Tour, 1636–37 (New College, MS 348) William Poole (2017): 08 Poole
Cyprian in England James Willoughby (2019): 11 Willloughby
Contemplating Cavendish: An Analysis of Reader Marks in Playes (1662) E. Mariah Spencer (2021): 16 Spencer
Conservation of the College Archives Jennifer Thorp (2012): 02 Thorp
Collecting Christopher Skelton-Foord (2023): 20 Skelton-Foord
Classifications in Time: The Rise of the Shelfmark on the Failure of Provenance Jason Morgan (2017): 08 Morgan
Christopher Saxton’s 1579 Atlas of England and Wales: An Unexpected Savilian Book Among New College Library’s Treasures Alexandra Plane (2019): 12 Plane
Chasing Somervile, New College’s Poet of the Hunt Christopher Skelton-Foord (2022): 18 Skelton-Foord
Chasing Provenance: Apuleius’s 250-Year Journey from Robert Dow’s All Souls’ to James Edwards Sewell’s New College Jason Morgan (2014): 05 Morgan
Capturing Sound: The Art of William de Brailes in New College MS 322 Shelley Morwenna Williams (2022): 17 Williams
Brotherly Love? Dr Young among the Thespians Lucia Quinault (2018): 09 Quinault
Bonfoy Trimnell (d. 1691): Birthday Poet, and Donor of Newton’s Principia William Poole (2021): 15 Poole
Benjamin Stone, Dead Poet (c. 1612) William Poole (2013): 04 Poole
Bells and Books: Not What You Might Expect in Oxford’s Dreaming Spires Helen Bond (2017): 08 Bond
Anniversaries, Alumni, and Acquisitions: New College Library in 2019 Christopher Skelton-Foord (2019): 12 Skelton-Foord
Andrew Holes and John Burgh: Two Wykehamists, One Manuscript Collection David Rundle (2023): 19 Rundle
An Unrecorded Letter of Sir Francis Bacon, to New College, 12 April 1617 William Poole (2016): 07 Poole
An Italian Visitor to the Library, c. 1525 James Willoughby (2018): 09 Willoughby
An Inquest of 1566 Jennifer Thorp (2014): 05 Thorp
An Early Modern New College Dynasty: George, Thomas and Bruno Ryves William Poole (2013): 04 Poole
An Early College Bookbinder James Willoughby (2020): 13 Willoughby
An Ascension Day Ritual Revived: New College Chapel and St. Bartholomew’s Chapel Edward Higginbottom (2013): 04 Higginbottom
Alfred, Lord Milner in Russia, 1917 Jason Morgan (2013): 03 Morgan
Agincourt Sermon Christopher Tyerman (2017): 08 Tyerman
A Visual ‘Note’: New College from an Unusual Angle Miles Young (2017): 08 Young
A Taste of the Eighteenth Century Marjory Szurko (2018): 10 Szurko
A Tale of Two Iliads: Oxford New College 298 and Trinity College Dublin 922 Mateu Portells Watson (2023): 20 Portells Watson
A Tale of Two Books: The Naturall and Morall Historie of the East and West Indies at New College Library William Shire (2023): 20 Shire
A Sad Case of Neglect: The First Chinese Book in New College Library Peter Kornicki (2018): 10 Kornicki
A Recent Purchase: Julian the Apostate, Orationes (La Flèche, 1614) William Poole (2016): 07 Poole
A Poetic Squabble about Bottle Banks and Skips (1988) William Poole (2012): 02 Poole
A Periegetical Poem from Jacobean New College: Richard Zouche’s The Dove (1613) William Poole (2018): 10 Poole
A New Year’s Gift from 1600 William Poole (2022): 17 Poole
A New Setting: John Heath’s Translation of The Accomplishment of the Prophecies, 1613 Mark Byford (2013): 03 Byford
A New Manuscript for New College William Poole (2013): 03 Poole
A New Incunable for College: Wynkyn de Worde’s Golden Legend, 1498 James Willoughby (2013): 04 Willoughby
A New College Pun Revisited Miles Young (2018): 09 Young
A New Acquisition: Christophorus Longolius’s Copy of the 1511 Parisian Edition of the Corpus Juris Civilis William Poole (2013): 04 Poole
A Medieval Travel Warrant Jennifer Thorp (2016): 07 Thorp
A Medieval Binding James Willoughby (2012): 02 Willoughby
A Mathematical Chaplain: The Books of Richard Bestwick William Poole (2019): 11 Poole
A Marginal Follower of Fashion James Willloughby (2013): 03 Willoughby
A Library about New College: Noteworthy Acquisitions in 2022 Christopher Skelton-Foord (2022): 18 Skelton-Foord
A Lamentable Book James Willoughby (2018): 09 Willoughby
A Hard Day for the Scribe of MS 66, a Wycliffite Bible in New College, Oxford John Zachariah Shuster (2018): 10 Shuster
A Fifteenth-Century Bookman James Willoughby (2012): 02 Willoughby
A Changing World: Sebastian Münster’s Cosmographia from 1544—BT3.187.1(2) William Shire (2021): 16 Shire
A Book with a Price in the World: New College MS 274 Jenny Adams (2019): 11 Adams
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